Beast Taming: the More the Better

Chapter 1246: Chapter 511: Surging Crowds! The Demon King Descends!

"Tsk, it seems the effect is quite good! What a massive crowd."

Heart of Soul’s Ghost Castle.

This was the control center of the entire Heart of Soul.

The Ji Yin Di Fu Ling, Hong Yi, floated around the castle’s control center, seemingly jumping for joy because her master, whom she hadn’t seen for days, had arrived once again. Su Ping lay back on the sofa in the control room, smiling as he tossed a few Soul Crystals to Hong Yi.

Bai Cang nodded from the side. "It is indeed quite good, but the trains are a bit insufficient. Most people fail directly on the train."

Su Ping raised his eyebrows. "Speaking of which, what exactly did you and the scene designers hired later set up on this Bloody Train?"

Bai Cang nodded.

"It’s like this. As the first level they enter, the jump scares set up on the Bloody Train aren’t particularly complex. They mainly rely on ordinary methods, but there are also some attack-based Death triggers. If a certain situation is triggered, the player is judged to have met a Death condition and forcibly ejected from the Heart of Soul.

"However, this time, the overall story theme is the main thing worth mentioning!"

"Story theme?" Su Ping chewed on these words.

He hadn’t paid attention to the Heart of Soul recently. What had Bai Cang and the hired scene designers done?

"That’s right! As our first opening event, the story theme for these seven days is the safest and most popular one: the revival of the Demon King! Among the seven levels currently open, a Demon King Level monster is under Sealing. Six of the scenes lock away the Demon King’s limbs, head, and torso.

"The remaining scene places a Sealing on the Demon King’s soul, but this soul has unknowingly broken its Sealing and is now wandering throughout the entire Heart of Soul.

"The souls of all humans who enter the Heart of Soul will become the Demon King’s food. Only the wisest of humans will have a chance to clear all seven scenes and escape.

"Aside from this simplest ending of fleeing in panic, there are two other endings, perfectly meeting your request to place easter eggs within the Heart of Soul.

"For one of them, the player must find the Demon King’s true soul and agree to become his lackey. They will no longer be affected by the horror elements or the spiritual power suppression of the Yin Land. They can then seek out and trick other players into helping the Demon King remove all his Sealings. Once the Demon King’s body is completely free of its Sealing, all players in the entire scene will be declared as having failed.

"The lackey player will also receive a reward from the Demon King. As you mentioned before, it will be a Monarch Level resource of their choice.

"There is also a hidden ending, which involves discovering the Demon King’s existence and conspiracy, and placing a new Sealing on the unsealed soul of the Demon King! The one who performs this Sealing will also receive the same reward!"

Su Ping nodded continuously as he listened. It definitely sounded quite interesting just hearing about it. "Who is playing the soul of the Demon King? What about the six bodies with Sealings?"

Currently, with Hong Yi around, the Low Level Undead in the entire Yin Land were naturally completely obedient. However, the ’Demon King’ still needed a certain level of prestige.

"You can rest assured about this. The Pet Beast acting as the external manifestation of the Demon King’s soul is a special guest star sponsored by Master Yin Luo this time—an Emperor Level Pet Beast, the ’Shadow Charm Spirit’. It is a pure Undead Series, Wandering Soul type Pet Beast.

"As for the torso and other body parts, since they are Sealing Objects without Spirituality, they are just specially crafted props. Furthermore, once the Demon King fully revives, there will be a direct server-wide announcement forcing everyone to exit all scenes..."

Listening to Bai Cang’s explanation, Su Ping nodded. He knew of that creature; it was a mass of black fog concealed within the shadows, which indeed fit the role perfectly.

As for the countless details within the scenes, Bai Cang didn’t mention them, nor could he possibly finish explaining them all. However, Su Ping’s interest was piqued. He really wanted to see if any player could actually crack these setups within the seven days.

However, Bai Cang soon said with a troubled expression, "It’s just that there are too many people, and a lot of them are stuck on the trains. It might slow things down when trying to bring in subsequent players. With so many people coming, a large portion of them will have to return empty-handed."

This was indeed a problem. Su Ping frowned, but he quickly came up with an idea.

"In that case, don’t let so many players get stuck on the Bloody Train. After all, the story theme of the Heart of Soul this time isn’t strictly linear. They can absolutely enter places like the Death Wheatfield and Ghost Castle first.

"Go down and notify the staff. Designate a portion of the Bloody Trains for pure transport purposes, but don’t count it as the players clearing the Bloody Train level; they can challenge it again later. Just funnel them directly into the other vacant scenes for now, and change the destinations of these transport trains to be completely random.

"This will even out the number of players across the various scenes. After all, they’ve been waiting in line for so long. If we only accommodate a hundred or so people a day, it would look too embarrassing. The other scenes are so massive; handling the entry and exit of a few thousand people a day shouldn’t be a problem."

Su Ping’s words made Bai Cang’s eyes light up. He immediately went down to get it done.

Su Ping was left sitting in place, watching the ’victims’ one by one on the surveillance screens.